"Diving is one of the most mentally exhausting sports and can be emotionally frustrating, but he does a great job at maintaining some sanity for all of us," she said. "He wants us to do the best we can during our training to set ourselves up for success when the season comes along."

Hong Kong: Retired Chinese champion diver Fu Mingxia has given birth to a boy in Hong Kong, newspapers reported on Monday.   Fu’s second child with former Hong Kong financial secretary Antony Leung was delivered at Queen Mary Hospital on Sunday, Oriental Daily News reported.  Both mother and child are well, Sing Tao daily reported.

SWIMMING Australia boss Glenn Tasker says it would be logistically impossible for Australia to step in and host next year's FINA world championships if Montreal was forced to pull out.

BRITAIN'S Olympic diving hero Peter Waterfield plunged back into Waltham Forest last week, vowing to scale the heights of a sport which for one week gripped the nation during the summer.

Now as a freshman at Williams College, she has started another chapter in her athletic career. Last Friday she competed on the collegiate level for the first time

Now Cardinell said she plans on completing her master's degree in telecommunications in four years with a concentration in either sports or entertainment. She will continue to work toward her goals and hopes to someday compete in the 2008 Olympics in Beijing.

Canada faces international embarrassment at the pool. The 2005 world aquatic championships in Montreal are in danger, the chief organizer says, after the search for sponsors belly-flopped, leaving a budget shortfall of at least $14-million. Cancellation looms for the 180-country event,

The minister met several elite athletes, including Olympic silver medallist Alexandre Despatie, to tell them about the financial crisis on Tuesday. Despatie, the poster-boy for a major publicity campaign promoting the event, brushed past reporters following the meeting and was apparently too distraught to comment.

George Washington University diver Katura Horton-Perinchief was named the Atlantic 10 Women's Swimming and Diving Performer of the Week Monday for her performance in the Colonials' meet against Old Dominion University on Saturday.

Pat McCormick, four-time Olympic Games gold medalist diver, is the grand marshal of the Christmas parade. She won two gold medals in the 1952 Games and another two in the 1956 Games.

Guo Jingjing, the heroine of rumoured love affairs with the grandson of a Hong Kong tycoon, has turned down all commercial activities at the request of the swimming administration.

The Aquatics Federation of Canada selected two gold-bedecked Paralympic swimmers as Canada's top performers in the water in 2004, ahead of able-bodied compatriots who won world diving championships and set short-course world records.....born with a clubfoot, was selected the male aquatic athlete of the year. He won out over his close friend and diving phenom Alexandre Despatie...

The diving team is the smallest varsity team at Illinois-two athletes, Bernardo and sophomore Jackie Bain, and coach Billy McGowan. "I think a lot of people think diving's easy, and it's not," Bain said. "It's not as physically demanding as other sports,

MOSCOW, December 1, (RIA Novosti) - An experiment is under way in Russia to rehabilitate handicapped children by means of highboard diving - a sport that is not included in the programme of the Paralympic Games.